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...companies and symphony orchestras emerge from their winter homes to blossom in dells or along breezy lakeshores. Opera companies and rep theaters haunt the deserts at night. Cultural traditions and folkways are everywhere on display. This year is the bicentennial of Mozart's death. New England mountain greenery will echo with his works; a traveler can head westward, enjoying the composer's pieces in big towns and small and, in late August, take in a grand Amadeus finale in the vastness of the Hollywood Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveler's Advisory | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

That oldies echo in your ears is the result of a high-tech technique, digital sampling, that is turning pop music on its ear. Besides creating some unexpected new sounds, sampling is raising serious legal and ethical issues. "We're talking here about the ultimate instrument," says Mike Edwards, founder and lead singer of the British neopsychedelic group Jesus Jones. "I think that sampling's effect on music cannot be calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Sampler | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

With the recession hanging on like a pall, many of the nation's big retail outlets are beginning to resemble mausoleums. Merchandise sales are dismally flat this year. Still, not every store is an echo chamber. A few novel retailing ideas have captured the attention of otherwise moribund buyers. The success of some may signal that shopping preferences and rituals are changing, while others may be nothing more than passing fads. As the great philosopher Confucius -- yes, Confucius! -- once said, "To open a shop is easy; to keep it open is an art." Here are three works of modern retailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing Wet Seals and Whale Songs | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...trickier. Statistical evidence points to racial disparities in the application of the death penalty; if my cartoon redneck were indifferent to human life, he should be most profoundly indifferent to Black life. I wrote, "None of his best friends are young Black men." Both captions were meant to echo the hackneyed, insincere disavowal of racism. "Some of my best friends are Black...

Author: By Paul Tarr, | Title: Race, Rats and political Cartoons | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...icons of Iran's Islamic revolution are not what they used to be. The former U.S. embassy in downtown Tehran, where radical students held 52 U.S. hostages for 444 days, retains only the faintest echo of those angry days. The anti-U.S. slogans on the compound's walls are faded, and the Revolutionary Guards standing outside are definitely part of a new generation. A bearded, young guardsman asks of a passing foreigner, "Are you American?" To a nod, he responds with a big smile and says, "Very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: A Revolution Loses Its Zeal | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

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